Porn star is quizzed in cash-for-honours police probe

[emad]

Source: London Evening Standard

An American porn star has been flown to Britain by detectives investigating the cash-for-honours investigation, it was revealed today.


Californian actress Courtney Coventry, 25, was questioned by police yesterday over her links with Labour's chief fundraiser Lord Levy. Mrs Coventry was introduced to Tony Blair by Lord Levy at a fund-raising ball at the Hilton Hotel in 2004.

She and her British-born husband John Coventry were invited to the event after claiming to be a real life Count and Countess.

Mrs Coventry - wearing a giraffe-print dress and bright red lipstick - was introduced to the Prime Minister as the Countess of Rozel, a title the couple had bought for a few hundred pounds.


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From The Sun today:

Earlier this year Courtney — a former girlfriend of Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner — told of her shock at how easily she and her husband duped Labour after they paid £1,000 for tickets to the swanky bash

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007290466,00.html

[MNDemNY]

1. zzzz

:boring: :boring: :boring:

[redqueen]

7. aww but look... they went to the trouble of including a pic...

and that's important! we need to SEE the porn star, see?

isn't that good enough for you?

isn't it?

:eyes:

[MNDemNY]

10. Maybe if it were more(less) appropriate.

[MrPrax]

13. Agreed...

When this picture is so much better.

Doesn't bLAIR look rather pleased with himself....



BUT -- there seems to be some dispute as to whether Mrs. Coventry is even a Porn Star. It might simply be added flourish on the part of the Daily Mail to undermine the womans' credibility when they used it in the original story.

Labour organizers like Levy and Hogarth must have known they we're really 'royals'. (scroll to the very bottom for the guest list to Hef's 2004 New Years' Party)

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[paparush]

15. LMAO!

datz a good vone <<-- California Gov voice overdub

[MrPrax]

17. Ja...Das ist gooden joke...!! n/t

[Ian David]

2. I bet she has an impressive body of work. n/t

[spinbaby]

3. I thought this was going to be a Jeff Gannon story

But then I remembered that he's a prostitute, not a porn star.

[LiberalFighter]

4. Countess of Rozel?

How gullible is Blair and his cronies? Probably letting her treasures blind them.

[emad]

5. Pictured with Blair earlier this year:

See:
http://bestnewsfirst.blogspot.com/search/label/courtney%20coventry

[redqueen]

8. judas priest

twice in one thread?

you sure you intended this to go in LBN?

(fyi: the pic threads are usually found in the lounge)

[On the Road]

6. Did She Buy a Title?

Is that illegitimate? I thought it was accepted practice -- I mean, even Zonker did it. What's the scandal exactly?

[emad]

9. The Labour Party accepted over £15 million in "loans" for its

election fighting funds, denied their existence, and then gave peerages to some of the lenders after saying no connection.

The man in charge of pimping for the loans was Lord Levy, Blair's chief Middle East 'envoy' who spent 18 months touting for support for the war against Iraq.

Since 1994 he has also been Blair's personal blind trust portfolio bagman - same as William Stamps Farish III to George W Bush.

[On the Road]

12. I Understand

totally different situation.

[rocktivity]

11. Honours...so THAT'S what they call it in Britain...

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[paparush]

16. Does she have a stage name?

[mitchum]

18. She's no Christine Keeler

[Disturbed]

19. The Labour Party accepted over £15 million in "loans"

That's the real story but it aint sexy. The Porn Star angle is. Brits just love sex scandals.